Do dental implants always need a positioning guide?

Many people don't have a clear concept of digital guides, let's first look at what a digital guide is from a picture:

Digital implant guides are a kind of molds to assist implant surgery. Prosthetic-oriented dental implants require a certain degree of precision in the depth, direction and position of the implant, and relying on the doctor's naked eye and experience can easily lead to problems, so a guide plate is needed for precise positioning.

Based on the data template by the computer-aided design, through the 3D printing technology, the production of complete and preoperative simulation planning exactly the same as the digital implant guide. Precisely determining the three-dimensional position of the implant within the bone tissue, the implant surgeon navigates the implant in accordance with the digital guide plate, eliminating the need for flaps and sutures, reducing implant surgery time, safely avoiding nerves, blood vessels, and other important anatomical structures, and at the same time decreasing the patient's chance of infection.

The use of digital guides has the following advantages:

1. Precision

Precise design before surgery, precise control during surgery, the implant implantation direction, position, angle and depth can be seen at a glance, the guide plate design of the implant implantation to the best position, the safety is greatly improved.

2. Fast

The surgeon does not need to cut, flip, suture, or project the implant position during the operation, which greatly shortens the operation time.

3, minimally invasive

No cutting, no flap, small incisions, no need for stitches, less bleeding, reduced postoperative swelling, discomfort and pain, fast healing, low chance of infection.

So, the use of digital guides is conducive to implant surgery, helping to increase the success rate of implantation and the service life of dental implants, and better protect the patient's oral cavity.